TimeLine Will Luke 7E

By LUK0003
  • May 20, 600

    7th century Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls, and write other documents on more perishable media

  • May 20, 751

    751 Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas

  • May 20, 1305

    1305 The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing

  • May 20, 1450

    1450 Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type

  • May 20, 1520

    1520 Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.

  • 1793 Claude Chappe establishes the first long- distance semaphore telegraph line

  • 1831 Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph

  • 1835 Samuel Morse develops the Morse code

  • 1843 Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line

  • 1844 Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply

  • 1849 Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers

  • 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston

  • 1877 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

  • 1889 Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone

  • 1901 Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland

  • 1925 John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal

  • AD 26-37 Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signalling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun

  • 1942 Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique

  • 1947 Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell- based approach which leads to "cellular phones"

  • 1949 Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem

  • 1958 Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use

  • 1963 First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article

  • 1966 Charles Kao realizes that silica- based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection

  • 1969 The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet's ancestor, are connected.

  • 1971 Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.

  • 1977 Donald Knuth begins work on TeX

  • 1989 Tim Berners- Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN

  • 1991 Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fibre with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second

  • 1992 Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).

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  • 105 Tsai Lun invents paper

    Tsai Lun invents paper